Eric Weiner Quotes
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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All of a sudden to get all of this attention, and to be away from home and working all the time was hard. I was on planes all the time. I didn't see my friends. I cried a lot. It was quite terrifying.
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In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.
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Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.
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I spent my entire childhood in an environment in which the mighty of the earth had no place outside story books and dreams.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.
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The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.
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I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.
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Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
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What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.
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It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up... and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.
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This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
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Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.
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Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).
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It's not what we believe that makes us happy but the act of believing. In anything.
